Nature Communications (May 2018)

Plasma membrane LAT activation precedes vesicular recruitment defining two phases of early T-cell activation

  • Lakshmi Balagopalan,
  • Jason Yi,
  • Tiffany Nguyen,
  • Katherine M. McIntire,
  • Adam S. Harned,
  • Kedar Narayan,
  • Lawrence E. Samelson

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-04419-x
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 1
pp. 1 – 17

Abstract

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Controversy exists over the function of plasma membrane versus intracellular vesicular LAT in T-cell receptor signaling. Here the authors use high resolution imaging of the temporal dynamics of LAT involvement to show that both sources of LAT are required, but at distinct stages.